Kaduna State Police
Command says it has arrested two persons in connection with the murder of a
corps member, Lawal Auwal-Kontagora.
The 26-year-old, who
graduated from a university in Malaysia and returned to the country for the
compulsory one year service in the National Youth Service Corps about four
months ago, was killed by suspected hoodlums in Malali, in the Kaduna North
Local Government Area of the state.
The state Police
Public Relations Officer, ASP Aliyu Usman, told our correspondent that the two
suspects were nabbed by men of the command, adding that they were being
investigated for their alleged involvement.
“The case is under
investigation at the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and
Intelligence Department,” he said.
One of the suspects,
Jamiliu, aka Baba lado, was said to be a bus driver and a resident
of Kwaru in Malali.
The late
Auwal-Kontagora was killed along Gambia Road in Malali on October 17, 2016,
while visiting a female friend, identified simply as Murdja, in company
with his friend.
It was learnt that
while they were in his car, a Peugeot 407, some hoodlums waylaid the vehicle
and ordered them to open the door which they did.
One of the late
Auwal-Kontagora siblings, Yusuf Ma’aji-Kontagora, said after they alighted from
the car, the hoodlums asked them to kneel down and collected their mobile
phones.
He explained that it
was when Lawal who left his phone inside the car tried to open the car door to
pick it and hand it over to the hoodlums that they (hoodlums) shot him at a
close range.
“They thought that
Auwal-Kontagora was trying to play a fast one on them. They shot him at a close
range in his right leg,” he added.
Ma’aji-Kontagora said
they received information about the incident around 10pm and rushed him to a hospital
where he was pronounced dead.
The hoodlums were also
said to have smashed the corps member’s head with an object.
It was said that
Murdja raised the alarm, which made the hoodlums to flee the area.
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